What a huge fucking relief. Thank you, black voters of Alabama, for sending Roy Moore packing.
Screw you, Roy Moore, but not that poor horse you rode in on.
Roy Moore rides away on his horse after voting in the Alabama Senate election.
Here's what to watch in today's hotly contested race: https://t.co/iONlmtfGJd #alsen pic.twitter.com/WI2xoJbi6s
— POLITICO (@politico) December 12, 2017
Why would you ride to the polls on a horse if you CAN’T FUCKING RIDE A HORSE PROPERLY TO SAVE YOUR LIFE YOU FAKE COWBOY ASSHOLE PREDATOR?
Here are some more Tweets and an open thread. CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON.
Woke up from a nap. Turned on MSNBC, expecting the worst, then … pic.twitter.com/EIvDkseYMH
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) December 13, 2017
Shouts to Steve Bannon, MASTER STRATEGIST, who managed to lose a Republican election in fucking Alabama. pic.twitter.com/fWT4AhFzGW
— shauna (@goldengateblond) December 13, 2017
Black folks elected Doug Jones. FYI. #AlabamaSenateElection pic.twitter.com/CErgK6eOeI
— deray (@deray) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/owillis/status/940798680214458370
https://twitter.com/pattymo/status/940787884285718528
Roy Moore not conceding is very very on-brand for a son of the confederacy.
— AT (@primediscussion) December 13, 2017
donald trump is hog tied in a bathroom somewhere desperately chewing trying to chew through the door https://t.co/Y70TmLXOdN
— Ashley Feinberg (ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social) (@ashleyfeinberg) December 13, 2017
hell yeah dude, it would be my PLEASURE pic.twitter.com/ugWregfJ3X
— Rafi Schwartz (@TheJewishDream) December 13, 2017
https://twitter.com/DIorioNathaniel/status/940797919833329666
https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/940797646846988295
Big night for the Republican party https://t.co/NxhbbVF9g4
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) December 13, 2017
One more dancing dog because why not?
@Dormousing_it
I hope your cats get along okay!
@Victorious Parasol:
Thank you. I also hope they don’t further trash my house.
I remember one year we were taking the Christmas decorations out of storage. We opened a box of tree ornaments, and there was a cat turd – a very old cat turd – at the bottom of the box. Heh. “Merry Christmas” from the cat.
Jigsaw puzzles. I remember enjoying those, back when I had a table big enough to do one on, in a room I could shut the cats out of…
RE: Jar-Jar
Apparently there where rumors that Jar-Jar was originally intend to be a undercover sith lord and his behavior was just a act much like Yoda acted like a fool when he fist meet Luke. I could totally see Jar-Jar’s lightsaber fighting style being based on drunken martial arts cranked to 11.
Re: Twitter
Warning – link goes to the Metro, so not safe for work/comfort/brain cells stuff all over the page.
Well, the English Defense League has been suspended, and according to them* there is no chance of reinstatement.
Funny bit in the article:
Don’t know why, that just cracked me up.
I really,really hope that’s not a typo
Me too. But – it’s the Metro. Owned by the Daily Mail and the place they put their failed journos out to pasture. So – could be right, could be a typo, or could be a Fail special assfax.
Still funny though. 😀
I also read and loved Nancy Drew, Enid Blyton, Bobbsey Twins, Happy Hollisters, and Matt Christopher as a kid. One of my enduring memories of fourth grade is having to give an oral book report on “The Secret of the Old Clock.” In the middle of the report, I suddenly got stage fright and froze up like a deer in headlights. I forgot the plot, the characters, the author, the title, what a “book” was, what my name was, why I was standing up there, and how long I had been standing there. All those EYES. STARING at me. STARING. I began to forget that I had ever had an existence before the book report. STARING.
Eventually three or four neurons struggled back to life and fired, which was enough for me to blurt out “If you want to know what happened next, read the book!” and rush back to my desk.
My enjoyment of Nancy Drew waned a little after that.
Nequam & Tovius— I had a friend who did a thesis on portrayals of Jews in European art, and talking to her was enlightening; although I’d already had an interest in the subject, I learned even more through her. Evidently there were periods, regions and artists which really blurred the lines between visual portrayals of Jews and actual demons. And there were some truly astounding rumors regarding ostensible Jewish abilities and rituals…rumors which were, sadly, at times “confirmed” under torture during trials for blasphemy, witchcraft, child murder, etc. Just like with “witches.”
Shadowplay— I’ve been both fascinated and disturbed in the past reading the results of hidden bias studies. But what I saw was at least 15yo. I’d be most interested to see current ones, especially after the 2016 elections. Sigh.
Holy shit, I suddenly remember Caroline B Cooney. I devoured her books when I was a kid. I have a very vague memory of any of the plotlines now, but I remember that the gaslighting that went on in the Losing Christina series was probably my first exposure to the concept and I found it completely terrifying.
I want badly to be hopeful about the Twitter news. But it’s a business, after all.
Still…’tis the season for a miracle, please?
My holiday wish: Twitter, choose wisely!
As for childhood books: any John Bellairs fans about? Or Daniel Pinkwater? Both had such awesome girl protagonists; it was so inspiring to me as a kid!
The battlin’ Palins are back!
Sarah Palin’s son Track assaulted his father Todd after ‘freaking out’ on pain medication
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/sarah-palin-son-beat-father-freaking-meds-article-1.3707340
So a couple of days ago, Trump announced a new national security strategy which included the broadening of the use of nukes, allowing them to be used against “non-nuclear strategic attacks”. Trump has been itching to use nuclear weapons, and this new doctrine means that he could do so in response to, say, a large-scale cyber attack. But the thing about cyber attacks is that it’s notoriously difficult to identify the actor responsible. If you see attacks from IP addresses in China, is that the Chinese government, or is it a western attacker leveraging compromised systems in China? If the attacks are coming from all over the world, how do you trace them back to the ultimate source? The NSA may be able to, but who trusts them to be truthful?
It looks like there’s a danger WW3 could be started when a cyber attack by a criminal group gives the US the pretext to blame North Korea.
You should never combine alcohol with any pain or psychoactive medication! All kinds of bad things can happen, from psychotic breaks to respiratory failure.
Speaking of combining booze and meds (and Trump) – Alex Jones is at it again.
Alex Jones’ ‘gut’ tells him the FBI will make an ‘assassination attempt’ on Trump’s life in the next 30 days
Raw Story link, not infowars.
Alex Jones’s gut knows that when that assassination attempt doesn’t happen, it’ll just be because he drew attention to it. He can’t lose.
@Manecki Neckbeard,
I have two gifs for your wonderful child. These are both in my class slides for tomorrow. There’s a … very flimsy connection between the gifs and the actual content, but it’s enough.
Much as I love Marge, this one’s the bestest:
Re Star Wars spoilers (don’t worry, no actual spoilers, and I haven’t even seen the new one yet): When The Force Awakens had just opened here, I was playing Path of Exile online, and people in the chat casually referred to a major spoiler from the film (I’m sure you all can guess which one). I closed the chat and left it that way. I’m not a mega-fan but it was a bummer, nonetheless 🙁
@Dormousing_it
Best case scenario: your cats sort their relationship out while you’re gone? Fingers crossed.
Was it you (a few pages back) who mentioned YouTube vids for the cats? If you see this at all, would you mind sharing a couple of links? I’d love to see if my three would be interested.
Alex Jones’s gut is full of it.
@Mish of the Catlady Ascendancy:
Yes, that was me. I’m too old/too dumb/too lazy to research how to do it, to post links. But, if you go to YouTube and type in “videos for cats” in the search bar, a whole slew of these videos come up. There’s one with a title like “Birds and squirrels being awesome!”. I had to laugh at that. They are awesome!
If anyone can direct me to a WordPress how-to that would explain how to post links, post pictures, and embed text, I would be thrilled. I did do a little bit of research, but I didn’t find anything that was of any help.
… and we hardly had time to miss them….
Unrelatedly, Hannah Wallen of the Honey Badgers (who I’d completely forgotten about after they took the money from their lawsuit scam and ran) has gone full Nazi. I’m sure everyone is surprised.
very very slightly apropos of SW –
Vous le connaissez sans doute déjà – Darth Vader dans la boulangerie …. qu’est-ce qu’il achète?
PAIN PAIN PAIN, TARTE TATIN, TARTE TATIN
eh, it makes me smile 🙂
To be fair, your guts are where shit is supposed to be eventually produced.
Though Alex Jones’ guts seem to be working overtime on shit production, so much that it’s constantly dribbling out of his mouth.
SFHC:
Doubly shocked, in my case! I hadn’t heard about the outcome of the lawsuit thing.